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BROWN MAN's BURDEN::::::Club of '98 vs Uncle Sam
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To: kanakamaoliallies-l@hawaii.edu 
Subject: Re: McKinley and the Philippines 



Yup, McKinley was such a (Republican/corporatist) airhead!

As we study the history of Annexation, it is fascinating to rediscover
that 
anti-imperialist sentiment has always run deep in America.  For a
compendium of 
thinkers who spoke vigorously against the U.S. land grab, see Jim
Zwick's homepage:
Essays, Speeches and Pamphlets: Anti-Imperialism in the United States,
1898-1935
<http://www.rochester.ican.net/~fjzwick/ai_essay.html>

One gem from this history relates to Rudyard Kipling's famous poem,
"White Man's 
Burden," which served to fan the flames of imperialism.  Attached, find
a 
counterpoint called "Brown Man's Burden" which appeared in London in
1895.

And, in case you missed it on MSNBC,  check out Michael Moran's column
on Cuba 
called "100 years of attitude," where he concludes:  " A century has
passed since the 
Spanish-American war and still America cannot come to terms with an
independent 
Cuba. Under the guise of concern for human rights in Cuba ‹  a concern
we 
somehow donıt feel compelled to act upon in China, Saudi Arabia or
Egypt ‹ the 
United States refuses to deal honestly with the reality of modern Cuba.
Itıs as if 
Washington believes that denying recognition to Castroıs government
will deny a 
century of devious, blundering American policy, from the Platt
Amendment to Batista 
to the Bay of Pigs."  <http://www.msnbc.com/news/137304.asp>

Let's hear it for the "Club of '98" (Cuba, Puerto Rico, Phillipines,
Hawai`i, Guam, and 
Wake) and our common task to turn America around!

Nani & Ka`imi
-- 
Ho`okipa Network of Hawaiian CBO's on Kaua`i
E-mail:  cbokauai@hawaiian.net
Phone/Fax:  808-821-CBOS
Virtual Taro Patch: <http://www.hawaiian.net/~cbokauai>
Cyber-Partners, 1000 Friends of Kaua`i:
<http://www.hawaiian.net/~cbokauai/k1000>

Taroist CBO's just do it:  What it is is up to us...
{CBO = community-based organization}


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                           The Brown Man's Burden

                             by Henry Labouchre

      Truth (London); reprinted in Literary Digest 18 (Feb. 25, 1899).

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     Pile on the brown man's burden
          To gratify your greed;
     Go, clear away the "niggers"
          Who progress would impede;
     Be very stern, for truly
          'Tis useless to be mild
     With new-caught, sullen peoples,
          Half devil and half child.

     Pile on the brown man's burden;
          And, if ye rouse his hate,
     Meet his old-fashioned reasons
          With Maxims up to date.
     With shells and dumdum bullets
          A hundred times made plain
     The brown man's loss must ever
          Imply the white man's gain.

     Pile on the brown man's burden,
          compel him to be free;
     Let all your manifestoes
          Reek with philanthropy.
     And if with heathen folly
          He dares your will dispute,
     Then, in the name of freedom,
          Don't hesitate to shoot.

     Pile on the brown man's burden,
          And if his cry be sore,
     That surely need not irk you--
          Ye've driven slaves before.
     Seize on his ports and pastures,
          The fields his people tread;
     Go make from them your living,
          And mark them with his dead.

     Pile on the brown man's burden,
          Nor do not deem it hard
     If you should earn the rancor
          Of those ye yearn to guard.
     The screaming of your Eagle
          Will drown the victim's sob--
     Go on through fire and slaughter.
          There's dollars in the job.

     Pile on the brown man's burden,
          And through the world proclaim
     That ye are Freedom's agent--
          There's no more paying game!
     And, should your own past history
          Straight in your teeth be thrown,
     Retort that independence
          Is good for whites alone.

     Pile on the brown man's burden,
          With equity have done;
     Weak, antiquated scruples
          Their squeamish course have run,
     And, though 'tis freedom's banner
          You're waving in the van,
     Reserve for home consumption
          The sacred "rights of man"!

     And if by chance ye falter,
          Or lag along the course,
     If, as the blood flows freely,
          Ye feel some slight remorse,
     Hie ye to Rudyard Kipling,
          Imperialism's prop,
     And bid him, for your comfort,
          Turn on his jingo stop.

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     This poem was usually attributed to Labouchre, who edited Truth,
     the magazine in which it first appeared. When it printed the poem
     on February 23, City and State noted that "it is understood" that
     the author was John Hollingshead, a prominent English theater
     manager and contributor to Punch and other magazines.
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     Preferred citation: Labouchre, Henry. "The Brown Man's
     Burden."Literary Digest 18 (Feb. 25, 1899).
     http://www.accinet.net/~fjzwick/kipling/labouche.html In Jim
     Zwick, ed., Anti-Imperialism in the United States, 1898-1935.
     http://www.accinet.net/~fjzwick/ail98-35.html (December 1995).
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